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So last week I contacted two of the authors of the 2017 Cerutti Mastadon paper. Now it was never specifically mentioned in the paper what the authors thought actually made the breaks to the mammoth bones though it was strongly implied that it was some sort of hominin species. I told them I thought it was a Homo erectus based on the findings in Lake Chapala and both of them thought I was on the right track in making that assessment. They then sent me this supplemental to the Cerutti paper. The good stuff really doesn’t start until page 56 but I thought it was quite interesting that it mentions Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Denisovans as each being possible contenders for pre-Holocene hominin expansion into the Americas. Now neither of them would say if they specifically believed in Sasquatch however the one did say that if there is something out there presently and you wanted to find the origins then this 5e interglacial period of Beringia is where you’d definitely want to start. Nature Supplemental.pdf

Ok. I watched this documentary tonight. Semi-spoilers from this point on. I will try to keep my observations on this film’s social commentary as apolitical as possible here. That being said, the documentary was kind of interesting at first, and then completely sucked. Typical agenda driven Hulu programming. I canceled my subscription months ago, but signed up for a free week to watch this. The beginning where the reporter recounts his tale of hearing pot growers report the death of 3 people at the hands of Bigfoot is pretty neat. However, it swiftly turns into typical ‘man is the real monster’ tripe. Oh, and apparently violent Mexican pot growers are ok because they are just trying to support their families, but Caucasian pot growers are racist thugs. The movie swiftly moves away from Bigfoot as the culprit to the idea that the murders were committed due to racism. The one similarity to regular Bigfoot documentaries that this film retains throughout its entirety is the exaggeration of evidence and danger. Simply put, the director interviews and speaks to extremely low level people in the pot trade...if they are even involved with it at all. I find the theory of Bigfoot murdering 3 migrant workers more realistic than the idea that this guy was openly going into grow areas questioning growers about several unsolved decades old multiple murders. I don’t for one second believe that he did this. The reporter apparently has a history of going deep into various gangs to compile stories, but now I don’t believe his alleged history either after seeing this film. Simply put, the way that he is going around trying to get people to talk about unsolved murders and even making veiled accusations about various levels of involvement...no one involved with the black market grow operations of Northern California would be willing to speak with this guy. End of story.

I managed to "almost" finish the route I failed to complete last Sunday. Today was a beautiful warm spring day, so I headed out to try the Silver Skagit route again. The roadblock at km 26 was gone, and just beyond it, the after effects of what must have been a killer windstorm were evident, with not dozens, but hundreds of tree stubs along each side of the road where work crews had removed all the trees blocking the route, and many hundreds more were down in the forest. A campsite that our group has used in the past is blocked by trees down just yards off the main road, so I continued to the alternate that we used a few times about 10 km. further along. About 2 sq.km. around it are charred by a forest fire, and it looks like a war zone. Just a short 100 m or so down the road on the other side I did find a trail into a nice clearing that's big enough for 3 or 4 trucks to park and camp. I found bones there, most looked deer size, but there were 2 oddballs, large ribs that had been cut at one end. I carried on into the Provincial Park, and saw another large burn, starting at the east side of the road and going right up the side of the mountain. The road was gated just before the large campsite at Ross Lake, so I had to turn around there. Before heading back, I walked across a cable supported footbridge across the Skagit River to a meadow area some 700 yards into the forest on the other side to stretch my legs from the bumpy drive. There was a fair bit of traffic, and most roadside clear spots had campers or day trippers in them. Burned campsite Possible new campsite, where bones were found Bones Oversize ribs, cut at one end Footbribge across the Skagit, just upstream from Ross L View downstream

I think I do. I don't think the crux of the story changed, what changed were which details were emphasized and that was done to "reach" whichever audience he was talking to at the moment. I do the same thing. If I go hunting and kill a big buck, when I tell my hunting friends I emphasize details of the hunt, the deer behavior, the shot, the pack-out, but if I am talking to my non-hunting friends, I gloss over the kill and talk about the birds, the squirrels, etc. Neither is a lie, it's just communicating with people about the things relevant to the story that I expect them to know without cramming something they'll object to down their throats. MIB

Justin joined the BFF right after the incident. He was.on the chat room often and many of us had the chance to ask him questions. My impression is that he really wasn't sure what he shot, he didn't have a clear view and was very scared of the pissed off parent animal coming to the scene. He had to hurry. There is a thread somewhere around here where he posted the details.

I thought Meldrum and crew went it with him the following spring. And thats when they collected the samples.

https://www.theunion.com/news/crime/justin-smeja-reality-tv-bigfoot-hunter-faces-charges-in-nevada-county/

It’s funny you mention that because both seemed relieved that younger people are finally starting to take note of the findings in Cerutti and take their conclusions seriously. Even though neither scientist would admit to believing in the existence of Sasquatch I could definitely relate to both of them as they gave me the indication that their findings and overall conclusions have been HEAVILY scrutinized and outright dismissed by large swaths of the anthropology/archaeology community. As a squatcher this sure sounded all too familiar. P.S. The reason I won’t mention their names is that I left both conversations on fairly decent terms and I don’t want either scientist to be afraid to converse with me again in the future. Just as neither one would say whether they did or did not indefinitely believe in the existence of Bigfoot, even the slightest association with various cryptids can be a career and reputation killer for modern day scientists. Nonetheless, I do believe proponents of a pre-Holocene N. American hominin are some of the best academic allies we have currently have in the Bigfoot community.

It was part of the batch that Dr. Brian Sykes tested. Smeja was on the show Sykes did after the results came out. The show was Bigfoot Files and was a 3-part series.

Good work! Excellent actually and what you did falls right in line with what I've been saying all along which is that scientists and academia are accessible and they DO respond to email inquiries. That's why I keep saying they need to hear from us because ya just never know how many BF proponent type scientists are out there.

The browridge recovered in Lake Chapala, Mexico was said to most closely resemble Zhoukoudian (Peking) Man III which was recovered in China. Anyone think this is a mere coincidence or is this replica the closest thing we have to a Sasquatch skull??

It sounds like it turned out to be exactly like all the rest of the Bigfoot shows out there. Thank you guys for saving me a waste of my time.🤙🏽

We just had a rogue snow storm go through the area, we were planning a trip out to wineberry in the next few weeks to check on the berry vine development. Our july expedition may be foiled a bit now if this storm causes another berry failure like we had last year. I'll post updates here when after we get back.

Yeah, I love it! I grew up with Kurt and Goldie going all the way back to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in the late 60s. Now my grandkids watch them in the Christmas Chronicle movies. I have become my father who always told me who the actors were on the shows I watched as a kid.

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@Believer57 ive been carrying the shield for nearly 20 years lol

Skinwalker may have won the role to begin with. He was up against some golden boy genes. The actor's dad is Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken), mom is Goldie Hawn.

I see that river has the Makita XCU04PT1 16" with 4 18V 5ah batteries, 36V so it requires 2 at a time. I can't decide which is the better deal, slamazon often challenges the buyer with difficult decisions such as this one:

Personally I do not agree with Meldrums assessment that BF shows no evidence of culture which he claims is necessary for it to be near human in intelligence. He confuses culture with cultural artifacts. We have so little knowledge about where and how BF lives, for all we know they have villages deep in the woods. They may not walk around with bows and arrows, but they do construct things. This glyph on a stump was constructed for me when I was present.

Yeah right, that is clearly a man in a suit. Case closed.